HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): At least three people have been killed and a fourth wounded in a traffic accident on Herat-Adraskan road in western Herat province, an official Thursday. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesman of Herat Zonal Hospital, told Pajhwok...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Public awareness drives on human trafficking have helped in a decline in the number of incidents of human trafficking in the country in comparison to the past years, Emergency Relief and Development Authority (ERDA) said on...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Several shops were gutted when a fire erupted in the Bush Bazaar in the capital Kabul Tuesday morning, causing millions Afghanis losses. Eyewitnesses told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place at 10am today. About 20 shops...

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Eight members of a family have been killed by a snowslide in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Friday. The avalanche hit the family’s residence in the Bahadar village of Chapa Dara district the other day, the police...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Three young Kuchi tribesmen and their 150 sheep were killed in a cave collapse incident in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Thursday. Governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News the cave...

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): A woman and a minor child have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in northern Faryab province, where another woman was electrocuted, an official said on Wednesday. Both the incidents took place in Khawaja Sabzposh...

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Two districts in the southern Ghazni province received the first snowfall of the season measuring 35 centimeters, has blocked the roads connecting the districts with the provincial capital. The first snowfall was received by...

AIBAK (Pajhwok): A truck skidded off the road and overturned near the capital of northern Samangan province on Tuesday, leaving two persons, including the driver, dead, an official said. Col. Abdul Razeq, Samangan traffic department head, said the...

KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 300 people were killed and over 2,500 injured in a powerful earthquake that hit the Iran-Iraq border region late on Sunday. The earthquake was measured 7.3 magnitudeon Richter scale. Iranian media emphasised that the quake...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Five passengers were killed and 37 others wounded in an accident in southern Kandahar province on Monday, an official said. Qudratullah Khoshbakht, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the accident took place...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Efforts have been made for safe and secure flow of traffic through the Salang Pass during winter, authorities concerned told lawmakers on Monday. Abdul Rahman Salahi, secretary at Ministry of Public Works, Mohammad Aslam Sayas,...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Six people were killed and 17 others wounded in a traffic accident in the Washer district of southern Helmand province on Monday morning, officials said. Greshk district chief Mohammad Saleem told Pajhwok Afghan News the...

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): A 24-year-old man has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after saying “sorry” to friends on Facebook in western Herat province, an official said on Sunday. Rashid Aria uploaded his last video on his Facebook...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Two people were killed in a traffic accident in the Salang district of central Parwan province early on Saturday, an official said. District Chief Mohammad Sabir Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News the accident took place at around 4:...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Four children died and 34 people including women and children injured when their bus plunged into a deep ravine in Pachiragam district of Nangarhar province, officials said on Saturday. Qari Hijratullah, the Pachiragam district...

KUNDUZ/QALAT (Pajhwok): Nearly a dozen people died and 14 others sustained wounds in two traffic accidents in northern Kunduz and southern Zabul provinces on Sunday. A security forces’ Humvee vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle in Khawaja...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The US Embassy in Kabul in a statement on Sunday regretted the loss of Nancy Dupree, an internationally recognized expert on the history, art, and archaeology of Afghanistan . “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Nancy Dupree, a...

KABUL (Pajhwok): US Citizen Nancy Dupree, a renowned historian and archeologist on Afghanistan , died at the age of 90 in Kabul early on Sunday. She spent more than half of her life (53 years) in Afghanistan on academic research and tourism. She...